Ha, yes, simple, really. We don't know much about Briggs' (or Dougie Milford's) "classified" experiences with these forces, except that they went on for many years before Cooper arrived in Twin Peaks. So, Briggs likely visited this "other place" before, if not periodically getting sucked back in (he seems to have…

It does seem like there's more to this story than simply BOB/Mr. C created a lookalike golum, although that is what MIKE suggested before he deconstructed Dougie. Still, it's strange, as you say, that Dougie would have been living a "normal" life all this time. The metaphysical implications are disturbing, are some…

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I like how, the closer we get to his full return, the more the original score starts to kick back in. Wasn't that a variation on the drum riff from The Bookhouse Boys when he was in the elevator zeroing in on the coffee? "Damn fine Joe!"

Another possibility is that the corpse is of Briggs' doppelgänger, but, either way, it has his prints.

That is hilarious. Now that you mention it, she might be buying all of them.

I also especially like how Coop has yet not returned to Twin Peaks, but instead to this near desolate desert suburban development, inhabited by drugged-out squatters and prostitutes, while thugs in muscle cars prowl like jackals. His own stuccoed neighborhood is nearly identical, although it still has a family,…

All that toxic gold spray paint may drift off into the fresh forest air, but it's well worth it for the shinola.

Yes, that all makes sense. Although, I read the numbers above the socket going from 15 to 3 as a change in voltage, following the eyeless woman's electrocution (sacrifice?), rather than two different doors, but this is possible, too. (Then, of course, Coop's old room at the Great Northern is "315"- is there a…

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I was confused about that, too, but as Shawn, Derek and other pointed out, the fingerprints on the male John Doe appear to be Briggs'. The only things we found out in "Case Files" was that he "hadn't eaten for days, at least not food," and had Dougie's wedding band in his stomach.

My two favorite scenes are the ones with Ed and Norma, and Bobby and Laura. They were probably best left out of an already long movie, but are so just good, they exist like little little dream islands in space.

Fantastic observations!

Even if it is kind of a re-tread of the "Love conquers all" Deus ex machina of Closing Time, I liked the resolution in how it dovetails back to the first part of the trilogy. Bill's mental construct of her mother is a genuine presence that The Monks could not account for in their simulacrum.

A story about nothin'.

I was thinking about this, and I think your subconscious is onto something.

See? Simple things.

When he finally, defeatedly says "damn it"- that was the laugh-out-loud hand-clapping moment of the episode for me. You've just gotta love Gloria Burgle and Winnie Lopez's unflinching tenacity.

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